Real Words Without Definition
This one is a judgement call.
A regional word. Scots turns up more than anything else.
abody is Scots for everybody. abulyeit means dressed or arrayed. affloof means offhand. aholt is US dialect for ahold. affydavy is a joking form of affidavit.
Watch the overlap with lost spaces. abody looks like a body run together, but it carries a meaning of its own, so it belongs here.
1,957 words · sorted A to Z · each with a line on why it is here
Matches the word itself, not the note beside it. Case does not matter.
| Word, sorted Z to A | Region and meaning |
|---|---|
| fleerish | Cornish, steel for striking fire from flint |
| flerry | dialectal form of flurry |
| flewit | dialectal, a smart blow |
| flidder | Northern English, a limpet |
| fligged | Northern English, fledged |
| flitchen | dialectal, a flitch of bacon |
| flummer | dialectal, to flatter or humbug |
| flurn | dialectal, to sneer at, treat with scorn |
| flusk | dialectal, to flutter or bustle |
| flusker | dialectal, to flutter or fluster |
| fodge | dialectal, a squat plump person |
| fodgel | Scots, plump, buxom |
| foiter | dialectal, to walk unsteadily |
| forcy | dialectal, forcible, strong, energetic |
| fordays | Scots, far on in the day |
| forelooper | S. African, boy leading the ox-team (Du. voorloper) |
| foreloper | S. African, leader of an ox-team |
| forelouper | Scots/S. African variant of foreloper |
| forenent | Scots, opposite to, over against |
| forgie | Scots, to forgive |
| forhooy | Scots, to forsake, desert (a nest) |
| fosie | Scots, variant of fozy, spongy and soft |
| fostell | Kentish, variant of fostall, a farmyard |
| fotched | US Southern, fetched (fotch + -ed) |
| foughty | N. English, musty, damp, fusty |
| frabous | N. English, peevish, quarrelsome (cf. frab) |
| fraken | N. English, a freckle (var. of frecken) |
| fratcheous | N. English, quarrelsome (cf. fratch) |
| fratcher | N. English, a quarreller (fratch + -er) |
| frecken | N. English/Scots, a freckle |
| frecket | dialectal, a freckle, small spot |
| freith | Scots, froth, lather; to froth |
| fremdly | Scots/N. English, strangely (fremd + -ly) |
| fremdness | Scots/N. English, strangeness |
| frough | Eng. dial., brittle, of wood |
| fruggan | Eng. dial., an oven-rake or poker |
| fruggin | Eng. dial., an oven-rake or poker |
| fuffit | Scots, the long-tailed titmouse |
| fuirdays | Scots, far on in the day, late |
| furthy | Scots, frank, forward, affable |
| fussle | Scots, to whistle |
| fyce | US, a small snappish dog (feist) |
| gaberloonie | Scots, a gaberlunzie or licensed beggar |
| gairfish | Scots, the porpoise |
| galliney | dial., the guinea-fowl |
| galravitch | Scots, a noisy frolic, to revel |
| gammerel | Eng. dial., the hock, gambrel |
| gammick | Eng. dial., a prank, frolic (gammock) |
| gamphrel | Scots, a fool, blockhead |
| gansy | Northern English, a knitted jersey (gansey) |
| ganyie | Scots, a dart or arrow (gainyie) |
| ganzie | Scots, a knitted jersey (gansey) |
| garnel | Scots, meal chest or granary (girnel) |
| garridge | dialectal spelling of garage |
| garsil | English dialect, brushwood for hedging |
| gatteridge | English dialect, the spindle-tree or dogwood |
| gauby | Northern English, a simpleton |
| gaucy | Scots, plump and jolly |
| gaudsman | Scots, driver of plough oxen with a goad |
| gaulding | West Indian, a heron or egret |
| gauster | English dialect, to bluster or swagger |
| gaverick | Cornish, the crayfish |
| gawcey | Scots, plump and jolly (gawsy) |
| gawish | dialectal, foolish or gawky |
| gawney | English dialect, a simpleton |
| gawsy | Scots, plump and jolly |
| gaylies | Scots, tolerably, pretty well |
| gercrow | English dialect, the carrion crow (gorcrow) |
| geyan | Scots, considerably, very |
| geylies | Scots, pretty well, tolerably |
| gieing | Scots, giving (gie + -ing) |
| gigamaree | US dialect, a fanciful contrivance |
| gilenyer | Scots, a deceiver, beguiler |
| gilenyie | Scots, deceit, beguilement |
| gillhooter | English dialect, an owl |
| gillygaupus | Scots, an awkward fool |
| gilravager | Scots, a riotous reveller |
| giltcup | dialect name for the buttercup |
| gimmerpet | Scots, a pet ewe lamb |
| ginnle | Scots, to catch fish with the hands |
| girnal | Scots, a meal chest or granary |
| girny | Scots, peevish, fretful |
| girsle | Scots, gristle |
| gizzened | Scots, dried and leaky from shrinking |
| gizzern | dialectal form of gizzard |
| glack | Scots, a hollow or defile between hills |
| glaiketness | Scots, giddiness, foolishness |
| glaikitness | Scots, foolishness (glaikit + -ness) |
| glaizie | Scots, glossy, shining |
| glaked | dialectal, foolish, silly (cf. glaikit) |
| glarry | Scots, muddy, slimy (glaur) |
| glashan | Manx and Scots, the young coalfish |
| glaumrie | Scots, magic, enchantment |
| gledy | dialectal, glowing like embers (gleed) |
| gletty | dialectal, slimy, viscous (glet) |
| gliffy | Scots, of the nature of a gliff, a fright |
| glink | Scots, to glance slyly |
| glisky | Scots, gleaming, flashing |
| glommox | US dialect, a mess or muddle |
| glowbard | dialect name for the glow-worm |
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